Scootaloo jumped up as she heard Rainbow Dash screaming her name, making it echo around outside the filly’s cloud door. She twitched her ears in annoyance. Just a few more minutes, the young blank-flank thought.
She puffed back down on her pillow, turning her back towards the hallway. Sunlight streamed in her bedroom, lighting it with a warm orange. Scootaloo knew today was her first flying lesson. But working in the morning, she definitely was not the filly for that. As much as she wanted to please Rainbow Dash, the morning schedules were too early.
“SCOOOOOTALOOO!” her sister called once again.
The orange Pegasus frowned, obviously way annoyed. But Scootaloo got up and flexed out her muscles, stretching every bone her body could pop. It feels good for her, and it usually made her ready for the day. The filly trotted out of her room, into the hallway, back into Rainbow Dash’s training room.
“Rainbow Dash!” she called. “I’m here!”
But her sister wasn’t anywhere in the room. Neither did she know that the cyan Pegasus wasn’t anywhere in the house. “Rainbow Dash?” Scootaloo called again, a little more quiet this time.
“I’m outside!” the young blank-flank heard her sister say.
Scootaloo walked out the front door of Rainbow Dash’s floating cloud home to see the rainbow-maned Pegasus flying outside with her saddle bag on. “Uh, Rainbow Dash, where are we going?” asked the orange pony.
For some reason she regretted saying that. “TO THE LIBRARY!” Rainbow called out.
“The library?” Scootaloo asked. “Don’t you hate books?”
Rainbow Dash looked at her in surprise. “No,” she slowly said.
With that she swooped Scootaloo up on to her back and swiftly swooped down towards Ponyville. The orange Pegasus saw that she was heading to Golden Oaks Library. Ok, it's not a joke, she thought. Her ride flew with amazing wind-breaking speed, her mane flying past her head. Most of the village was still asleep, except for the early work ponies. All of it was silent. So silent you could hear the wind blowing and all off the ponies softly sleeping in their beds.
Rainbow Dash ‘parked’ outside of the library slowly walking in. Scootaloo followed her in. She was still so amazed on how many books were in here and how Twilight would finish all of these books. Never would little Scootaloo though. The filly never wanted to read a book in her life. . Unless it was important. But otherwise, no.
A purple unicorn was in front of her, stacking books in a glowing pink aura. Her horn was lit up in the magenta glow as well. Near her was a small neatly organized table with a few different books in various colors. Next to that sat a paper and a golden quill. Scootaloo had seen those golden quills at the Quills and Sofas. Twilight appeared to be stacking all of the books on the table to go into the shelves, and putting everything else on the table away into drawers, cabinets, and closets.
“Hey Twilight!” called Rainbow Dash. “What’s up?”
The unicorn turned around in surprise, dropping all of the books down. Then she smiled. “Hi Rainbow Dash, what’s up?” Twilight asked.
“Oh, I was just wondering if I could borrow the Daring Do books again for my little sis,” the cyan colored pony said politely.
Scootaloo looked at her sister in astonishment. “Books? I can’t read books!” the little filly said furiously. “It’s uncool!”
Rainbow Dash grinned and chuckled. “Ok, ok. But give it a try?”
The orange Pegasus filly frowned and looked straight in those pink colored eyes of Rainbow’s. Seeing this, Dash frowned and looked straight back at those purple eye’s of Scootaloo’s. “Ok, tell you what,” she said. “I’ll read the first book to you, but then you have to do the rest.”
Scootaloo sat down and crossed her hooves. Now she really wanted to please Rainbow. “Um,” she said quietly.
Now it looked like Scootaloo just unlocked Dash’s rage. “JUST READ IT!” she said.
The little orange filly backed up a ways and said “Fine.”
Rainbow Dash started zooming around the library. Twilight looked at her furiously. Books were falling all over the place! “Dash, stop! I’m trying to organize! It’s now just a bigger mess!” with that she started to pick up all of the books that fell.
“Oh, sorry Twi. Gotta go! Come on Scoots!” Rainbow said.
“WAIT! The books?” Twilight yelled at Dash.
“Oh yeah, sorry.”
Scootaloo felt like they had been getting books the whole morning into the afternoon. But when they got out, it was still morning. They flew up to the cyan pony’s house and trotted into the training room. “Okay, let’s learn how to fly,” her sister said.
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About 2 hours later Scootaloo had fallen and Rainbow Dash got more mad. Or at least that happened during the two hours. It was time for school, and the little filly had everything she needed. Turns out Dash got all her stuff good and ready before Scoots woke up.
She didn’t try to fly to school, for she just would fall by the wind just blowing at her. All day at school she thought about those books. How could she ever like such a dumb thing to do? I guess we’ll see.
“Scootaloo! Why are you spaced out in thoughts again!”
Scootaloo jumped up in surprise. Her other classmates snickered and giggled at the sight. She lowered under her desk in embarrassment. “Oh, I guess I was, umm…” the filly smacked her head into the text book that the class was together reading.
“You’re going to get a big scar on you face if you keep doing that!” said a filly with a white-striped purple mane.
Scootaloo flattened her ears and looked at her teacher, Cheerlie. “I won’t do it again,” she said depressingly.
“I should think not! Or you can stay after school reading the text book only with me if that is what you would prefere,” said Cheerlie.
But she spaced out again. And there she was after school. But the blank-flank just couldn’t stop thinking about those books and that flying lesson. She just wouldn’t stop.
She just would not stop.